Senate President, Bukola Saraki, may have felt very humbled, as the embattled Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, gets endorsed by 25 countries around the world, for his relentless fight against corruption.
This came despite the refusal of the Saraki-led Senate to confirm Magu as the substantive EFCC Chairman, based on a damning report written against him, by the Department of State Security Services, DSS.
The Spokesman of the Commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, who made this disclosure, stated that stated that the endorsement was the outcome of an opinion poll conducted by UK-based Global Peace Movement International.
According to him, Nigeria for the first time in over a decade, moved up in the global anti-corruption and transparency ranking.
He said that Analysts had attributed the improvement to the efforts of the EFCC, under Magu.
“According to the report by Transparency International, the corruption perception index ranked 176 countries on a scale of 0 (perceived to be corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be clean).
“In the report, Somalia was ranked the most corrupt country in the world for the tenth straight year”, the Spokesman said.
The President General of Global Peace Movement International, Dr Mike Uyi, said the poll was conducted to ascertain global opinion on the work of the EFC.
Uyo said Magu secured more than 96 percent endorsement by respondents, with the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, Canada, China, and Belgium, commending the work of the Commission.
According to the report of the survey, the US topped the list of countries that endorsed the EFCC Chairman with 92 percent of its respondents for, and 7 percent against.
The UK returned a 96 percent affirmative and France 85.
Other results of the poll, Uwujaren added, showed that 90 percent of German respondents voted in favour of the EFCC Chairman, while 9 percent disapproved.
Russia had 62 percent in favour, and 29 percent against; Greece, 73 percent for, and 22 percent against him.
Malta had 80 percent in favour ,with 17 percent disapproval; Sweden, 85 percent approval, and 7 percent disapproval, and Belgium, 85 percent for, and 8 percent.
Switzerland, Norway, Austria and India had 76, 85, 81, and 53 percent approvals respectively, and 11, 8, 6 and 26 percent disapproval in that order.
According to the EFCC Spokesman, Brazil and China returned 65 percent approvals each, and a disapproval rating of 27 and 22 percent, respectively.
In Denmark, 84 percent of the respondents voted for Magu, and 4 percent against, while in Canada it was 91 percent for and 3 percent disapproval.
Other countries, including Japan, Luxemberg, Mexico, South Korea, Portugal, Monaco and Netherlands returned approval ratings of between 70 and 95 percent.
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